I cover Project Management and MS Project (Chapter 3) early in the semester and always show the video “Managing Hard Rock’s Rockfest” (9-1/2 minutes). Of all the 30 videos we have filmed, this has been one of the most popular from the students’ perspective… mostly because it shows a lot of heavy rock bands and it is a rather unique and exciting nine month project.
I would also recommend assigning the case study by the same name. It is large (33 activities), yet easily handled by POM for Windows or Excel OM.
If you also want to include MS Project in your class (full-blown, but time limited copies are available free from Prentice Hall), look at the “Project Crashing using MS Project” exercise in our IRM. Professor Gary LaPoint, at Syracuse U., has developed this excellent exercise, with data files already prepared at our website. Thanks, Gary!